Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-01-23
SUGAR MADE FROM COAL TAR.
Possible Results Of q Discovery Made In
Germany-various A~dulterations.

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Germany-various Adu~lterations
The scientific world Is Just now inter-
ested in a recent discovery, by which coal
tar is made into sugar. The enterprise
originated in Germany, but is attracting
general attention in this country. DIR. I.
c. Minor, who keeps posted OH everything,
was called upon to give some facts on coal
tar sugar.
1.-THE new substitute for sugar. re-
marked DIR. Minor, '.is called saccharine,
and is really a product Of coal tar. 1t
will add n additional value TO the refuse
Of gas works. Its discoverer was Fohl-
berg, who formerly lived in the east, but
resides at the present time, l think, in
Hamburg"
HAS the new substance been intro
duced to commerce.
''Not TO any large extent, owing to its
cost, for il is worth about Sl2 per pound.
Yet one pound of saccharine will sweeten
TO- 900 pounds of water"
''How is it prepared for the sugar mar
ket!'
The preparation used in Europe il an
admixture ot glucose and dextrin. One
pound OF Slccharine will convert 1000
pounds of glucose into the very hest grade
of ordinary table sugar; that is, it will re-
semble table sugar as regards sweetness,
without the nutritious qualities Of the real
article
You don't mean TO say that there is
no nutrition in saccharine, DOCTOR
YES; il has little or no nutritious prop
erty, and is merely an alulterant.
lis it likely that it will be ever used on
a large scale as al adulteraIt in the
United States
''Of course" replied DR.. Miwr. when
the proccss Of making the SIcclIarln" Is
~cheapened. 1 would be willing 10 pr.
dict that every large gas works in tie
country will be selling s%icchhne rs 4
refuse principle in the next twenty y'aIS,
and that there will be enough profit in the
business to make Illuminating gas for
nothing; in other words, the present gas
works will lea saccllarlIle manufacturing
establishment, while the refuse will lc H..
Illuminating gas. Aniliiie colurs and AIM
monia salt, will be made under the same
roof AS the coal tar from winch the sac-
charinc Is dc,ulyed.
What is the process Of making sac
charine, Doctor
That question can be answered letter
by a chemist" said DIR. Minor. 1T Is
usual. however, 10 take what is called the
toluene in coal tar and treat this sub
stance with phosphorus pcntacllurrle: IL
Is the cost Of this other article that rem
ders the manufacture If s~accIarlne ~ ex-
pensiye. Yet, even as expensive As II Is,
a quality of sugar can now be manuiac-
tured even cheaper than New Orleans
al sugar
What will be the result of this ncw
adulterant:''
1T will cheaper the cost of swectening
materials in groceries and candies and
will enhance the value of real cane sugar,
just as the price Of pure butter has been
increased by the vile adulteration, oleo-
margarine. The working people, who
now pay tax ON every pound of sugar
they consume, can enjoy glucose, the
product of corn, adulterated with saccha-
rine, which has no nutritious qualities.
. Pure butter, pure sugar and pure milk
will always cost a large price and only
be within reach of the wealthy. Why,
ever modern Chicago lard is now said TO
he largely made from cotton seed oil.
This is the age Of adulteration, and about
the only pure article left to the mass Of
humanity are plain bread and water"
How about coffee and tea. DOCTOR
Coffee in the berry, unbrowned and
%unground, cal not be initiated, but three
fourths of the ground coffees on the mar.
ket are adulteratel, As for tea. Ceylon
is nov the great producing country for
cheap teas. which are palmed off in
Europe for fine Chinese goods. Ceylon
teas lack much of the theme or active
principle Of tea that is found in the genu.
Inc Hong Kong chops. Cincinnati En-
quirer.